All things Solar (merged threads)

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The reason why I say go bigger is that you do not know what is going to happen in the future. What happens if you current consumption changes. Your life style changes and you use more power. Your fridges decides to start playing up and starts using more power.

You also have to take into account weekends. If no one is home during the weekdays, but on weekends everyone is home. You are using more power. So your average will not be correct.

You have to remember with the old meters they read it once every 3 months and the average is worked out by the number of days in your bill divided by the amount of power you have used. The onyl way to work it out is read your meter everyday around the same time for a few weeks and see what the average daily use is.

Also those calculators you see online, they are very basic and give you a general range on what you use. Most will be incorrect for the usage at your home, they can give you an idea, but best way would be to read the meter and do your own maths.